Welcome to Short and Interesting – the podcast that reads to you short excerpts from old, weird, interesting books. This week we’re going back to Charles MacKay’s 19th century classic, “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” for more stories about alchemists. Specifically: Albertus Magnus & Thomas Aquinas; George Ripley; Bernard of Treves; and Nicholas Flamel.

Download this public domain book for free from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518

Music by Dan Mason. Check out and buy his music at https://danmason.bandcamp.com. For this podcast we’re using clips of three tracks from his 2019 album Hyp ...